Class Notes 2/1 and a link

First things first......Happy Anniversary Dr. Sexson!!!


A glossary of terms for "The Dead" http://www.mendele.com/WWD/WWDdead.notes.html

Lecture:

Joyce - finding the divine in ordinary & Commonplace
MS "cultivate boring friends, they slow time down."

Star trek the Next Generation
caught in a time loop because the ship collides with something sending them back in the time loop, repeat the same thing over and over, eventually start getting deja vu, realize they are about to collide with something and need to communicate that to themselves in the next time loop so they leave clues......
message in a bottle, have to pick it up.

Dr. Sexson shared his diamond discovery on page 126, picture of Romeo and Juliet, this enriched our sense of the experience of what is going on. Pay attention to the picture because it contributes to the larger theme. The Romeo and Juliet scene echos Gabriel gazing up at his wife up on the stairs, and also the scene of Michael Furey throwing rocks at Gretta's balcony.

BLOG: There is also a connection of the two murdered princes on page 126, just after the Romeo and Juliet reference, to the last paragraph in The Dead. Richard III, two ghosts of the boys, "despair and die".

Pat, Kerri, Kevin, Helena, Robert, Taylor, Tai, Ronald, and Doug shared their diamond discoveries.

Four distinct narrators in The Dead.

TS Eliot, Four Quartets, Dry Salvages
"Men's curiosity searches past and future
And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend
The point of intersection of the timeless
With time, is an occupation for the saint—
No occupation either, but something given
And taken, in a lifetime's death in love,
Ardour and selflessness and self-surrender.
For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of time,
The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts."